What the HORMONES

Finding hope after having a miscarriage can feel like an impossible task. The grief, the shame, the worry that our body is broken - these are all emotions that I felt with every loss and I know so many others feel too. So this week I am chatting with Dr. Briana Lutz, ND to help us understand miscarriage more deeply and the steps we can take to begin our healing journey. As a Naturopathic Doctor sh...

So it’s that time of the month again and you are dreading the next week! I am guessing you are probably even saying to yourself “I cannot wait until the day I don’t have to bleed ever again!” In this episode, I join you during my own bleed time, but rather then bashing my period, I show up in my true authentic energy of my inner winter. I am honest with how I am feeling and I don’t try to be my in...

Have you ever looked into the eye’s of a cute little puppy and felt the urge to stuff them in your purse so that you could hug them and love them forever? Well, STOP + LISTEN to this episode…. Before making that spontaneous buy, ask yourself where you are in your cycle and are your hormones tricking you into believing this is a good idea. Join me in the humourous conversation with my bestie on how...

Raise your hand if you can relate to feeling like a burnt out mom 🙋‍♀️ I know I sure have felt this way and still do some days. Being a mom, regardless if you are primarily at home or in the office is a BIG JOB. Add in our cyclical shifts, illness, and our desire to be the perfect parent and we can begin to feel defeated. This week we have Darci Hawxhurst joining us who shares her story of mother...

Period pain is not only debilitating for some women, but it is a monthly event that many suffer in silence. Men have not been taught how to hold space for women who experience this monthly take down and women have not been coached on how to care for themselves so that they can have tools to thrive during these painful days. Birth control and the removal of the uterus are not the only options. Ther...

🙋‍♀️ Is there an ideal time in your cycle to receive a massage? 🙋‍♀️ As a Massage therapist, how do you book your clients to make sure they are being seen at the right time in their cycle? 🙋‍♀️ As a business owner how do you use your cycle wisdom to care for your wellness and balance the workload? These are the questions that my dear friend Suzy Alcantara explores in this episode on the podcast...

I think most of us women dream of making 6 figures while working less hours and having the flexibility to be a the primary parent to our children. I also think that it is a scary to think we can do this while staying aligned to our menstrual cycle wisdom. Tania Vasallo has done just that! She has built her coaching business to 6 figures in 4 years with only working 20 hours a week. In this episode...

It can be hard to follow your life’s purpose and work in a job that you are passionate about. For many of us, we fall into roles that pay the bills or feel socially acceptable. BUT sometimes when we dare to leap and follow our heart’s desire, we can come out the otherside living our passion. This week, Rebecca Canup joins us to share her journey of leaping from her job in healthcare to her dream j...

Let the old saying “Work hard and it will pay off” be thrown out with yesterday’s garbage. 💥 Women don’t need to work harder, we need to work cyclically! 💥 What does this look like? Well it starts by knowing our cycle and feeling into the shifts in our energy, our motivation, and how the tasks we are drawn to do shift depending on what season we are in. Each of our seasons brings a skill set tha...

PMS…. What so many of us suffer from on varying degrees.  Symptoms ranging from irritation to rage to insomnia to pain radiating in some part of our body. But here’s the thing, PMS is a symptomatic condition of the times we are living in within modern society. PMS is our body trying to get our attention because we are living out of alignment with our hormones and what are body is needing to m...

Over the past century women’s bodies have been over medicalized as a band aid solution to silence our menstrual symptoms and gynecological issues. Yet women’s bodies and hormonal systems are not always taken into consideration in medical research and doctors are not being trained in hormone balancing (listening and investigating root causes). So how can we expect women to know and trust their body...

Endometriosis is a condition that can take years to be diagnosed. For many women with this condition they live with debilitating menstrual pain and often are only given two options by modern medicine - birth control pill or hysterectomy. Jamie K lived with endometriosis for 20 years before a doctor finally diagnosed her. During that time she was told by many physicians the pain was in her head. Wh...

Trying to understand how to balance your hormones for ease throughout your monthly cycle can feel like you are stumbling in a dark basement without any light - overwhelming with little hope of the outcome you are desiring. For most of us, we haven’t been encouraged to be curious about our hormones. In fact we probably know very little, never mind how we can have the power to balance them for deepe...

Are you in your 40's and 50's and feeling the shifts in your cycle? Are you feeling disconnect and overwhelmed in this stage of your life? Well you are not alone!  So many women enter perimenopause and feel at war with their body. There can be a rise in emotions that you were not prepared for and physical changes that you are lost in how to navigate. In this conversation with Dana Atkinson, w...

Our body has a rhythm and that rhythm is a way for our body to talk to us. In this episode, I am going to share the 4 different methods you can use to chart your menstrual cycle, so that you can de-code your womb wisdom and start living in alignment with your unique rhythm to feel empowered by your body's wisdom. When we know our cycle we are better able to manage our energy, nourish our body with...

This episode is to help anyone who wants to live cyclically, but doesn't have a menstrual cycle due to a hysterectomy, menopause, not born with a uterus but identifies with feminine energy or just has unpredictable cycles. In this episode you will learn: 1. How to chart with the moon? 2. How shifts in natures seasons can impact the cycle? 3. Establish excitement and curiosity in creating a cyclica...

In this episode we are going to look at the menstrual cycle in a new refreshing way: 1. What are the 4 phases of the cycle? 2. How to connect deeper with our menstrual cycle by seeing it as Inner Seasons 3. How to live in more balance with each phase so we feel aligned, curious, and inspired Don't forget...today's take away...women we got to rest and then rest some more! It's medicine for our cycl...

In this episode we are going to talk about the dreaded bleed...our menstruation: 1. Why it is important for our senior years? 2. How it is keeping us healthy each month? 3. How to reframe your feelings about your bleed if you are going through infertility, heavy or painful periods? 4. What I do to nourish myself during my bleed? 5. And finally my latest boundary that I created to help me during th...

I am Kate Nguy and I like to refer to myself as a Womb Revivalist. What is that? Well, give this episode a listen to learn more about me, why I am passionate about the womb, and how it is my hope (or mission) to get women to feel more empowered by their cycle! Don't forget to grab your free Cycle Journal by clicking her e. Join me in the After the Show Facebook Group - click here to join.